The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry

No industry can compare with nuclear for the lies and coverups. In the early 1940s the USA government perverted research into the medical uses of ionising radiation into a plan for radiation mass killing : the original aim of the atomic bomb was to kill people, and leave property undamaged. After World War 2, Germany’s Nazi scientists suddenly became respectable USA citizens, working on USA’s nuclear weapons.

From its murky past in weapons of mass murder, the nuclear industry emerged with its promiseof energy “too cheap to meter”. That was a lie, and the industry has been lying ever since. Unfortunately, as advertising has shown over the 20th Century, if you keep repeating a lie, people start to believe it.

The global movement for a clean non nuclear future – theme for March 2015

The nuclear lobby, the corporate establishment, governments and the mainstream media just don’t “get it”. But the world is moving away from top-down, centrally organised, vertically structured systems. Nuclear power, even that last ditch hope, “little” nuclear reactors – all are part of the out-dated systems.

There’s still a place for some centralised systems, with renewable energy transported by the grid. But along with the now horizontally organised communications – net-working across the world, grow the flexible and versatile systems of decentralised electricity generation.

Above all – the ever more rapid spread of ideas and campaigns. Some, we know, are harmful campaigns. But the movement for clean energy is unstoppable – spreading as it does from person to person – not relying on organisation by authorities and experts.

Indigenous campaigns lead the way – whether it be in America, Australia, Malaysia – indigenous peoples have already shown how they can slow down, even stop, the nuclear juggernaut.